On the Edge of Health and Design

Nita describing the experience of care from her healthcare provider perspective. Stay tuned for our first Learning On the Edge episode where your cohosts, Nita & Sylvia, share their learnings and personal experiences around Empathy and use of an Empathy Map towards humanizing healthcare. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sichealth/message

Mehbs describing how mid to late career Transitioners might help tackle "wicked problems". For more details, check out our full podcast episode, "Codesigning your personalized longevity playbook" on our website, Apple or Spotify podcasts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sichealth/message

"There's a deep need and desire to connect, communicate and share" - Mehbs describing Transitioners' mindsets. In this episode, we welcome Mehbs Remtulla, the founder of What's neXT?!, which he describes as "a community based and curated digital ecosystem, aimed at connecting Transitioners (defined as mid to late career individuals and self-described retirees) to opportunities for flexible work, giving back, and life-long learning. The mission of What’s neXT?! is to empower Transitioners to create

Yinka's key takeaway from our interview on "Exploring work, identity and wellbeing across transitions". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sichealth/message

"We all go through transitions...There's so much opportunity to use that transitional time to propel you forward...to be on the edge of the next thing that you're going to do." - Yinka Macaulay In this episode, we welcome Yinka Macaulay, founder of Well Millennial. This innovative initiative began with Yinka's own experience transitioning to the workforce after completing a graduate degree in Public Health. Well Millennial relaunched in 2020 to convene a community and thought leadership on the

"Let's all together normalize and reframe menopause" - Teresa Isabel Dias In this episode, three generations of women (Millennial, Generation X and Boomer) talk about menopause, a hot health topic that's finally being highlighted in the mainstream media. Your cohosts interview Teresa Isabel Dias, menopause expert and founder of MenopausED, an organization that offers one-on-one consultations for women experiencing perimenopause and menopause to help them navigate the menopause transition using a

"Futures tools could help spark innovation in the Digital Social Innovation space" - German Charum-Sanchez In this pilot episode, your cohosts highlight the Library Project that Sylvia and German worked on as an example of a social innovation project that benefited from use of a Futures Thinking tool. We also interview our SIC colleague, German about his background as an industrial designer, and his experiences with social innovation. Credits - Library Project OCAD University's Design for Health